developing their economies. the president of uganda put it even more bluntly. afcans have a right to choose reliable, cheep africans have a right to choose reliable, cheap energy. explain. fundamentally most of the poor countries in the world want to lift their populations out of poverty and you can t blame them and those are the guys that emitmost of the co2 over the century so the reality is if we want them to change you have to pay us enormous sums talking up to $1.3 trillion every year. western democracies are able to afford or be willing to pay that. what we should do instead is focus on innovation. imagine if we could innovate green energy to be cheaper than fossil fuel. everyone would switch. the real point here is not to try to twist everybody s arm to do stuff that they really don t want but instead focus on